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So we are home for the hospital, yea...kinda, we have to be back there on Thursday for another procedure, so it is a short break, but nice. I was going to post some pictures of Brianna and us at the hospital, but I just went through them and cried, I am not sure all of you would want to see them, it is pretty heartbreaking. I think I was in a daze at the hospital, but it is all kinda hitting me now. There are just no words to describe seeing my daughter like that, and going through what she did. Anyway, I hope we are past the peak of hardness...however we have this next surgery, then a baby to be born, then another surgery after that....sooo it is still a rocky climb. However, the doctor said it won't be as long and bad each time now that she goes in for another endoscopy. She will stay over night, and then hopefully go home in the morning. So that is really good news. I will post one happy picture of us leaving the hospital.

I hope everyone else is doing well and healthy. I will keep updating as much as possible. Again, thank you to everyone who is praying for us. We love you, and have felt the power of your prayers. I just found this, and how perfect it was for me to see at this time. I hope you like it too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz41YxNiHEg

Update

Just wanted to update those who know. We have been in the hospital since Thursday, with our little Brianna. She has a condition we actually are not even sure of, but one term they have used for it is, "Portal Hypertention" it is where the portal vien that goes into the liver is blocked somehow. Creating pressure and other viens to form. Which some of those viens have traveled to her esophogus (I don't know how to spell any of these) with created vericous viens that started to bleed. Hence our first sign something was really wrong was her throwing up blood. Anyway, what has happened is they have gone in with a scope and collapsed some of those vericous viens in her esophogus to stop the bleeding, they are now trying to figure out the bigger problem, why she has a blocked portal vien and what are they going to do to stop it. The specialist are not even sure them selves right now. What we know that has to keep happening is Brianna will have to get these vericous viens collapsed every 2 weeks are so, until there is no more bleeding. And once we figure out how to solve the blocked portal vien, we will need to fix that as well. As for now, she is in the hospital trying to stablize and make sure she isn't bleeding anymore. We are not sure how long this is going to take, hopefully not too much longer.

I have not had my baby yet, thank heavens. We are hoping Brianna will be out of the hospital by the time I have him. However, it is in the Lord's hands. We ask for your prayers, this has been the most scary thing to go through, and we know we have a long journey ahead. Thank you to all who have already been so generous and kind. Brianna is such a special spirit and we know the Lord is watching out for her.

Birthday Weekend

Grandma and Grandpa, came over yesterday for Mother's day and to celebrate the girls birthday (I am going to be going backwards through the weekend). They brought these pretty presants, which happened to be little bikes for the girls! They were soooo excited!

So I took the girls shopping with me a while ago to pick out their cake, and they picked the Little Mermaid one, cause she is a "Barbie" and they love all the Disney princessess but call them Barbie. Anyway, so I made the cake, and of course it fell completly apart, so none of the detail on the front was there, I just mushed it all on top, then froze it, then iced in, then froze again. When I went to decorate, I had to go from the picture, which was hard. So needless to say, she turned out to be kind of a funny looking Ariel. But not too bad. The girls loved it, and went straight into digging their little hands into her. It was so fun, and cute!

I had to post all of these, cause the girls were just toooo cute!!! Seriously sometimes I don't know what to do with myself cause I can't get enough of them. Anyway, this was on Friday, their actual Birthday, we took the girls swimming, cause they LOVE to swim. And they had so much fun and were so excited. After we went out to BP's and celebrated there. This was all just us little family.

I love these pictures, it was at the pool, the girls were trying to show me they are "3", with Daddy helping. And the one of all of us is so fun! We had a blast.

And yes, this is big fat me at 8 months!!! I just want this baby out so bad, but it looks like I might be going full term anyway, so forget that other message. I think the one doctor I had was a little wacko. Oh well. I just don't want him to be tooo huge. We'll see what happens. None the less, I am SOOOO excited for him to come, I just can't wait to hold a little baby that is mine again!

Isn't she just a beautiful girl!

Both of them, are just such pretty girls...and let me tell you they are GIRLS! They love wearing pretty dresses, and they are so dainty. I love it! :) I had to add these cause they are so cute, and cause it was one of the first times they let me do their hair, and I love that Elayna's hair is long enough to braid now, yipee! We sure had a fun weekend, and can't believe my babies are 3. They grow up so fast. So grateful for these 2, how much I love them! :)

Some News...

Well, I wanted to quickly jot down some news before I am unable to. I went to my doctor's yesterday and found out that I am already 3 centimeters dialated! She is pretty sure I am going to have this baby soon. Which, can I tell you I am soooo happy about. I just knew my body, and I have known all along that I wouldn't go to term....that is just my body, if you saw me right now, you would think the baby is due any day. My body just can't go anymore I don't think. So she want's me to take it easy cause she would like to keep it in until 36 weeks (2 weeks away). So we will see, last night I almost thought it was it, I was have tons of contractions! Anyway, I am sooooo excited, and so nervous at the same time. Yesterday after the doctors Jonathan and I went shopping and got some onesies, sleepers, diapers, etc. for the baby and set up his bassinet, and got the car seat ready. We are ready, and so excited!

And just for a hopeful wish....to try and bring on spring...please!

Wonderful Weekend

Decision made! YEA!!!!!!!!! I can not be more happier, than the van we bought this weekend. It just worked out too perfectly. And I am sure you all don't care to see the inside, but I love it and was so impressed. We have been hunting for a while, and were looking at older Honda Odyssey's or 2004 Nissan Quest's. The Honda's were ok, but old, and dirty, but we were going to go with one, until I saw my first Quest. If you havn't seen them inside, they are SOOO roomy compared to any other van. It is a fact actually, they are the most spacious van out there. But the one we saw was from a smoker, and the alinment was off....and a few other things. Then I remembed this one, that was from a guy in Lacombe. So we called and set up a time to meet on Saturday, I knew this was the one, so I was all prepared and brought all the documents. Well, needless to say we fell in love, this guy kept it sparkling clean, updated maintance, new brakes....etc. Just awesome condition, and for the same price as the other crappy one we saw. And it was Gold, and we wanted another color besides Silver, cause we have a silver car....and really it was like that is all people were selling out there was silver, ugh!! Anyway, he was prepared to sell it that day too, so we did the inspection right there and boom, we had our van! I am sooooo grateful. I just feel more free and more like a family....don't know why just cause :) Now we can bring our baby boy home! :)

So that Saturday night was a special night. Jordan's girlfriend got baptized. It was so wonderful. She asked Jonathan to baptize her, which was so nice. She was just a "golden" investigator, and Jordan did such a good job teaching her. She was just glowing that day.

The girls with their Grandma, who they love sooooooo much! It was a great weekend, and so nice and sunny which just makes it all that much better!